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...Double-Edged Sword Denis Donaldson, a former official of the I.R.A.'s political wing who admitted to having spied on the organization for the British, was found murdered in Ireland on April 4. The I.R.A. denied any involvement, but TIME's Jan. 10, 1972, cover story explained how the group's brutality could be turned on its own people: "On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh the old slogans of idealism and hatred: 'Up the I.R.A.' and 'Informers Beware' ... British command announced that children...
...Savitsky first acted in high school, and pursued it at Harvard until she fell into costuming, assistant directing, and ultimately producing. She learned the ropes of each job informally. Savitsky says she has done everything from visiting a bleak but beautiful island off the coast of Ireland that greatly influenced the playwright of “The Playboy of the Western World” to spending eight hours burning prom dresses for the costumes of prisoners in another play, so that they might look as though they had been “dragged out of the furnace...
...were portrayed as spoiled rich kids, accustomed to experiencing life as one long party and unwilling to let reality ruin their fun until it’s too late. Richard himself is given ample warning of the various dangers facing his rule but decides to go off to Ireland rather than confront them, returning only to be deposed. This Richard was likely to brush off serious matters with a sneer and a wave of the hand, which painted the defection of the more serious members of his court (they wore suits and ties instead of t-shirts or fishnets...
...MARY A. BRAZELTONCrimson Staff WriterThere were riots in the streets of Dublin when John Millington Synge’s provocative “The Playboy of the Western World” was first produced in Ireland in 1907. Running until May 6, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production of “Playboy” hasn’t yet incited Harvard students to a mass uprising, but it does put on a great show. This Loeb Mainstage play tells the story of Christy Mahon (W. “Hugh” Malone ’08), a traveler...
...priests since 1940, about 4% of the total, have abused children. Diarmuid Martin, a Vatican diplomat who speaks five languages, was made Dublin's Archbishop in 2004 and has sought to clean up and revitalize the church. He spoke with Time's J.F.O. McAllister. How has Ireland changed since you left it for the Vatican 30 years ago? It used to be that Irish society as such was a vehicle for passing on religious values. [In the meantime,] there's been a broad secularization - but it's an Irish secularization. People haven't rejected religion; they've rejected certain aspects...